1990
Ogden, Utah - Alan B. Hadfield was convicted of sodomy and sexual abuse
after his own children testified against him. Prosecution said that at
"least fifteen adults and fifteen children were identified as
participants in various unusual sexual activities,including instances
of group abuse of children by adults. The activities described by the
children involved Satanic ritual, costumes and masks, photography
equipment, men dressing in women's clothing, and frequent episodes of
playing with and consuming human excrement. Alan Hadfield was
released on probation in 1998. (Salt Lake City Messenger)

1990 Waterbury, CT - Two 16 y.o. Satanists were arrested for stealing
urns with human remains from a mausoleum. The pair admitted the remains
were for use in Satanic rituals. A third suspect was sought by
police.(AP)

1990 Bradenton FL - Satanist Willie J. Hills, 28, was sentenced to an
80-year prison term in a plea bargain over attacks on elderly women
that included sexual battery with force, attempted felony murder, armed
burglary and two counts of aggravated battery, amony other charges.
Hills was accused of beating two women in their 80s until they were
unconscious, raping and beating a third elderly woman and fondling and
tying up another. Hills flashed a victory sign after he pleaded no
contest to the charges. Hills told police and psychologists that he
believes in Satan and that he committed the attacks "to gain
power." Hills suffers from possible brain damage and
hallucinations, & has a history of violent crime (which is the kind
of person attracted to Satanism). (Tampa Tribune)

1990 Brentwood, CA - Michael Pacewitz had tried joining a local
Pentecostal church, but it didn’t work out, because he kept dropping
his pants and mooning people during the service. In fact he mooned
people anywhere he felt like, which landed him mental institutions from
time to time. Failing at Christianity (and also at taking his
anti-psychotic medication), he became a Satanist. It seemed to make him
even crazier. On 3-4-90, he confessed to police for raping and
murdering 3 y.o. Marcelline Ornick, for whom he was babysitting. He
told police the devil had commanded him to kill the girl, and he did
not regret it. He recieved 26 years to life. (Raising Hell: An
Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime by Michael Newton)

1990 Berkley, CA - Sex magic cult "Ordo Templi Orientis", and seven
individual plaintiffs filed a suit in Federal Court against the City of
Berkeley, County of Alameda, 10 named officers of BPD, two other
individuals and as yet unidentified additional defendants. Their
legal lottery suit asked $9.5 million in compensatory damages with
additional special damages and remedies. The damages arose from
allegations of violation of civil rights, civil conspiracy, false
arrest and imprisonment, slander, libel, conversion, assault, battery,
malicious prosecution and abuse of process,among other things. The
O.T.O. made an appeal for people to donate to their legal fund, citing
their failure to win past cases and sue "renegade O.T.O. lodges" due to
lack of funds. One would think with all that magical power they would
have won their case, but alas, they didn't. They could have bought a
lot of dope with that much money. Their demigod, Aleister Crowley, died
a penniless drug addict in a flophouse half a century ealier, you know.
(skepticfiles.org)

1990 Durango, Mexico - Police in Northern Mexico have arrested 14
people accused of belonging to a Satanic cult suspected of
carrying out more than 30 human sacrifices. The aurthorities have begun
digging up a mass grave containing victims in the Northwestern state of
Durango. The cult which allegedly carried out devil worship and
ritual killings, was uncovered by police in the small town of
Mezquital. The victims were believed to be local farmers
killed during ceremonies in which they were hung unpside
down and had their throats cut. The crimes seem to
have been similiar to those at Metamorors, leading some to think claims
by that group that the cult had more locations to not be just mere
bragging after all.

1990 Providence, RI - Two teens and two adults were arrested for
stealing an infant’s corpse from a cemetery. The body was later
recovered at an abandoned house used for Satanic rituals. (Raising
Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime by Michael
Newton)

1990 Pan Handle Texas - On Friday the 13th, 1990 Frankie Garcia was
sacrficed to Satan by his "friends" in a barn known locally as the
"haunted house".Witnesses said Garcia was forced to kneel as the 223
Cal. rifle barrell was placed in his mouth. Residents were shocked when
the killer turned out to be self confessed Satanist Kenneth Glenn
Miller. Miller was said to be "an admirer of Charles Manson and Jack
the Ripper". Miller was also chareged with the attempted murder of
Kenneth Willimas (his high school principle) and Jimmy Britten, an ex's
stepfather. Miller was described as having good grades until depression
hit him in high school. It was then he began to turn to Satanism and
serial killers. (amarillo.com)

1990 Los Angeles CA - William Tracy, 51, and his Wife Mary Ellen Tracy,
46, (a.k.a Lady Sabrina Aset) are convicted for prostitution as part of
an occult sex cult called "The Church of The Most High Goddess". The
couple, prviously Mormons before becoming Neopagans, claimed their sex
rituals were derived from Egyptian texts. Mary Ellen claimed she had
sex with as many as 2700 men as "High Priestess". Male particpants
could have sex with Mary Ellen Tracy for a "sacrifice" of $100. Tracy
described the acts as "sin cleansing rituals". The church was founded
when William Tracy recieved a revelation in 1984 (apparently to pimp
out his wife). Betwen 1986 until their arrest in 1989 some 2700
Johns...er...Neophytes were "initiated".(AP)

1990's South Florida - several victims fell prey to a Santeria scam
that cost them their lives. The scammer told vicitism that by drinking
a certain potion they would be able to find buried treasure. The potion
cost several thousand dollars and turned out to actually be a deadly
and quick acting poison. The story was profiled on NBC's Unsolved
Mysteries. (NBC's Unsolved Mysteries)

1990 NYC - Most Satanists say they don't believe in charity, and
perhaps it's actually a good thing. Daniel Rakowitz, self-styled leader
of the "Church of 966" (his own peculiar variant of "666") was
convicted and sentenced to life in New York City of the murder of
Monika Beerle. Cult member Randy Eastherday was also arrested in 1992
and charged with helping Rakowitz dissect and boil Beerle's corpse,
after which Rakowitz carried her skull and bones around in a bucket.
The soup made from her body was then fed to the homeless who didn't
know the soup's disgusting ingridents...which is really why Satanists
should leave the whole soup kitchen thing to the Christians. In
2004, Rakowitz was denied parole despite his claims he was no longer a
threat to society. At his sanity hearing, the prosecution presented
several books the inmate had in posession while in prison...all
involving murders and serial killings. Rakowitz tried to obtain copies
of Hitler's Mein Kampf and Grey's Anatomy, a discetion manual, but was
denied by prison authorities. Imagine that. Rakowitz had a copy of
"Mein Kampf" on him during his first interrogation by cops, explaining
that his father gave it to him when he turned 13. (Raising Hell:
An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime by Michael Newton)

1990 Phoenix Arizona - William Schmidt, wanted by police as a suspect
in four murderes, two involving his wives is found dead from suicide in
a Phoenix motel. Schmidt belonged to an occult group called "The
Osirian Order", and wore an amulet with the order's name on one side
and a pentagram on the other. In 1987 Schmidt was arrested on a
firearms violation. Police discovered Schmidt had ran a hose from his
exhaust pipe to the camper on the back of his pickup, creating a gas
chamber on wheels. (Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil
Worship and Satanic Crime by Michael Newton)

1990 San Jose, California - The Board of Directors for the Ancient
Mystical Order of the Rosy Cross claimed Imperator Gary Stewart bilked
the orginization out of $500,000 and hid the money in Spain. Stewart
denied the embezzelment charges. In April, 1990 a lawsuit was filed by
the AMORC Board and as a result of the allegations, Stewart was
kept from returning to AMORC's properties by a restraining order.
The case never went to trial, but the Insurance Company of North
America's made a motion for intervention on June 3, 1993 alleging
insurance fraud against the new AMORC Board of Directors. AMORC
settled out of court & on August 10, 1993 dismissed their case
against Stewart with prejudice. Even though the Ancient Mystical
Order of the Rosy Cross swears their founder H.Spence Lewis could turn
lead into gold, Imperator Gary Stewart apparently couldn't.The order
derives it's income from the monthly dues it charges it's members for
monthly occult lessons, sale of occult books, and related
paraphenailia. Original Imperator Leiws was a disciple of
Aleister Crowley, the bisexual sex "magicican" who died penniless in a
flophouse, so it sounds unlikely anybody was changing lead nto gold now
or at any time. Since the Rosicrucians aren't fundamentalist
Christians, the scandal got little coverage outside of San Jose. (San
Jose Sun)

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1991 New York, NY - Matias Frias, 21, is arrested for stealing 5 skulls
from a cemetery and selling them for use in Palo Mayombe rituals. (AP)

1991 Saginaw, Michigan- Jamie Rodriguez and Augustin Pena were
convicted for the murder of 15 year old runaway Stephanie Dubray.
Rodriguez had been a Satanist since age 16 when, at 21 he met Dubray,
who had a "666" tattoo herself. Rodriguez persuaded his cousins, the
Penas, to take the girl in. In mid July 1991 he and Pena decided
to sacrifice Dubray. Rodriguez held her while Pena stabbed her to
death. Rodriguez cut of a finger to be worn around his neck as a
souviner. Dubray's head was skinned, cut off ,and placed in a plastic
bag and put in the freezer. Later that day a vistor to the home
discovered the frozen head and called the police. At his trial
Rodriguez's Satanism was entered by his lawyer as evidence of insanity,
but the prosecution countered that a person could chose evil over good
without being insane. The jury sided with the prosecution. (AP)

1991 Des Moines IA - A 100 year old mausoleum was broken into, and a
skull stolen. The skull was later recovered at an abandoned hotel
covered with occult symbols and frequented by a Satanic cult known as
“The Lost Boys” , name taken after the vampire film (for some reason,
several Satanic cults take their name from that film. It was an 80's
"Corey & Corey" film for cryin' out loud!) (AP)

1991 Phillidelphia, PA - Satanist Jason L. Enders and his friends were
convicted of false imprisonment and assault stemming from their
participation in a Satanic cult ritual. The victim stated he wanted
nothing to do with them but he was forcibly taken to an abandoned barn
and tied to stakes in the ground over a pentagram drawn in the dirt. A
Satanic ritual was performed over him. He had a leather collar with
nails placed around his neck. One of the defendants punctured his neck
by pressing on the nails and placed his fingers in the victim's blood
and then to his lips. He was released after being warned he'd be killed
if he told anyone. Human skulls and occult books were taken from
their homes as evidence.(AP)

1991, Bute, Montana - In April, Leon Lloyd Whitcher, A 30 yr. old
self-described "high priest" of a satanic cult was convicted of raping
a 14 yr. old girl. Prior to the assault, he asked her a series of
questions about initiation into his satanic cult, whether she wanted
"power," and if she'd "obey a high priest." He told her to change into
a black robe, lie down, and stare at a pentagram painted on the ceiling
before he assaulted her.(Billings Gazette)

1991 Ft Wayne, IN - Two enterprising young Satanists got busted for
their money making scheme that had zero overhead: a service that
delivers stolen corpses for use in occult rituals. An undercover cop
posing as a Satanist offered them $400 for a dead body. Adam Barnaba
and a 17 y.o. friend were arrested after they tried to steal a corpse
from a mortuary. The pair advertised their services by word of
mouth...maybe the Yellow Pages would have been better. (AP)

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1992 Salida, California- In July two Satanists are sentenced to die for
the 1990 decapitation murders of four cult defectors in Salida,
California. Two more defendants are convicted and sentenced to life in
January 1993. [Modesto Bee, 1990-93]

1992 Palmyra NY Post-Standard Wed. August 12th 1992 Satanist Chad
Campbell (who had spent 18 months in a juvenille detention center), 16,
recieved 18 years to life for the murder of a todler and her 15 y.o.
babysitter Cynthia Lewis.(8-1-90 on Lughmas, a Neopagan holiday).
Campbell's mother claimed that her son had been bullied into going
along with the murders by another Satanist, Michael Huthcinson, 18.
Hutchinson died a few months after the murder by an aparrent drug
overdose. Campbell was 14 at the time of the murders. The mother of the
toddler latered sued Cambell's mother for "failing to restrain her
child." (Palmyra NY Post-Standard Wed. August 12th 1992)

1992 Milton-Freewater, Oregon Cemetery workers discovered a grave
robbery of a human skull. Police suspect the crime is occult related.
The skull belonged to a Robert Z. William, who was buried in 1929
in the Bowlus Cemetery. To date the culprits have not been caught. (AP)

1992 Atlanta, Georgia A self-described high priest of a Satanic
cult named Mike Earnest was convicted of murder. Ernest performed a
Satanic ritual over the female victim. Evidence of Satan worship
and evidence of the cult's involvement in church vandalisms was
admissible as evidence as to motive for the crime. (AP)

1992, Eastland County, Texas - In Sept., Phil Stanley Rogers pleaded
guilty to "Indecency with a child, younger than 17 years, committed
during the course of a ritual." The occult sex rituals began after the
purchase of a Ouija board by Rogers. Items police took as evidence
included books covering Satanism and the occult, pentagram symbols,
candles, daggers and wands. He recieved 99 years. (AP)

1992 Minneapolis, MN - In April, a Satanist woman had her parental
rights terminated by a court. By the mother's own admission, her past
included "years of sexual and physical abuse, parental neglect, early
and long-standing addiction to numerous drugs, serious mental health
problems, and involvement in a Satanic cult." The mother also tried to
commit suicide, and was diagnosed with borderline personality
disorder.Her child was taken into custody after two hospitalizations
due to overdosing. The mother was involved in four incidents, three
involving criminal convictions, which caused harm to children. (AP)

1992, Orlando, Florida - In Jan., Margie Wright pleaded no contest to
three charges of attempted sexual battery and two charges of attempted
lewd acts and was sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison. Jim Wright was
convicted of raping and fondling five children.couple were charged with
molesting children in the context of satanic rituals. The parents of
three of the victims moved residences and the prosecutor expressed
concern because the children had been threatened by the cult not to
testify. The children reported that they saw Wright sacrifice a stray
dog, slit its throat and stomach and remove some entrails. Sheriff's
investigators found the dog's skeleton near the Wright's trailer. The
Wright's molested children during their "Magic Show." The victims said
he pulled a gun out of a hat and made their underwear disappear. They
stated that Jim Wright put a "bad curse" on them and said "devil
words." The children described Satanic symbols, chalices filled with
blood and a box containing a corpse. They had been told not to tell or
their parents would be killed. Maggie Wright testified against her
husband while she pleaded no contest [which means "I'm guilty but I
don't want to say it"] to reduced charges. (AP)

1992 Parksburg, Washington 18 y.o. Chad Franciscus is convicted
for the ritual saacrifice of 16 y.o. Michael Divine of Parksburg.
Police found a Satanic altar and books on witchcraft in Fransicus'
home. Franscicus told a cellmate he had killed his vitim to "feel the
power of his life go into his hands". (9-16-1992 The Intelligencer-The
Record)

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1993 Oslo, Norway - Odinist Varg Vikernes a.k.a, "Count Grishnáckh" was
arrested for the burning of several Norwegian churches described as
being "of great cultural importance". Vikernes was said to be a deeply
anti-Christian & anti-Semite Black Metal musician who believes in
Old Norse gods like Odin and Thor, and a Neo-Nazi looking back to
a (non-existant) "golden age" in the Viking Era, hoping to restore it
in the future. Police decided they didn't have enough evidence to go to
trial, and he was released. Only days later he was arrested
again, this time for one of the most brutal murders ever committed in
Norway. The court did not buy his story that he had to stab the poor
guy scores of times in self-defense, and he was convicted to twenty-one
years in prison. His motive for committing the murder remains unclear;
some think that he simply loved to see his face in the papers. He
laughed when the judge sentenced him to 21 years. Even though
non-racist Odinists say the Neo-Nazi odinists are rare...I kinda doubt
it.. (Reuters)

1993 Moscow, Russia - Three Russian monks, Bro. Ferafont, Bro. Trofim,
and Bro. Vasilij, are martyrs for Christ after they were stabbed
to death by a Satanist In Optina Pustina, one of the most famous
monasteries in Russia, during Easter time. "666" had been carved into
each of the victims. After the arrest the Satanist declared: "There is
a war going on between God and Satan; the monks are the soldiers of God
and especially hostile towards Satan. Therefore I killed them." The
Russian Ministry of the Interior claims there are about 30 organized
Satanic groups in Moscow with estimated 2,000 members.(Reuters)

1993 Tampa, FL - Assistant State's Attorney Stuart Baggish shuts down
production of a Satanic “comic book” called Boiled Angel, published by
Tampa underground comic artist and Satanist, Michael Diana. Diana and
his girlfriend “Suzie Morbid” became local minor celebrities in the
Tampa alternative scene that radiated from Ybor City. Diana was
subsequently charged with several counts of obscenity and fought a long
legal battle with the aid of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which
was eventually lost. The magazine is just a series of Xeroxed papers,
stapled together which even Diana describes as "Satanic filth".

The artwork is rather crude, and talent wise, looks
like it was drawn by that kid you knew in Junoir High who always drew
pictures of trucks. The artwork is a disturbing collection of cartoons,
depicting, rape, incest, necrophillia, and usually just plain
blasphemous stuff. One picture depicting a woman dressed in S and M
attire climbs on to a nude, crucified, Jesus, and the caption reads
“It’s OK., we’re married”. Another picture shows a little girl with the
caption “F*** her, and kill her!” There also various newspaper
clippings about Satanic slayings, serial killings, pictures of surgical
instruments, as well as numerous pictures of goat’s heads, upside down
crosses, and prayers to Satan. The magazine bears a striking
resemblance to another Xeroxed collection of Satanic filth called
Onslaught! That was put out by the neo-Nazi Luciferian Light Group,
also based in Tampa. Diana had a few other brushes with the law,
including a incident involving trying to pass a counterfeit $20 at a
local nightclub a few years later (AP)

1993 Brownsville, TX - Dora Cisneros, a Brownsville mother, was
convicted in federal court for the 1993 murder-for-hire of her
daughter's ex-boyfriend, Joey Fischer. She went through a folk healer
to hire the men who killed Fischer for breaking her daughter's heart.
According to testimony, the folk healer had done a tarot card reading
and determined that Cisneros' daughter would not end up with Fischer,
spurring Cisneros to have him killed. (AP)

1993 Syracuse, NY - Domonick Tucci was arrested and charged for
the murder of Ann Resnki, aged 40. Resnki was first strangled to death,
and then her corpse stabbed several times. Tucci left a pair of knives
and a pair of scissors in the victim in such a way as to make police
think the victim was slain in a ritual manner. Upon investigation, it
was discovered Tucci was involved in the occult, and the victim had
been a “human sacrifice”. (AP)

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1994 San Jose CA - Christian minister turned Satanist Eric Pryor was
arrested in his Mountain View home for spousal abuse and assault with a
deadly weapon. His wife, Shelly Kolt, divorced him shortly afterwards.
Pryor had been a Wiccan with the craft name "Lord Gandolf" prior to
being a Christian, and once held a public "cursing ritual" against a
Christian evangelist that included several prominent Wiccans, including
Z. Bhudapest. Pryor's "conversion" to Christianity is
questionable. Pryor still seems to have been practicing both Wicca and
Satanism even while he was the "pastor" of Jubilee Christian
Center...easily switching and combining the three. Anton LaVey
once published an article in the CoS newsletter titled "How To Make A
Bundle As An Ex-Satanist", which might be where Pryor got his
inspiration. For a while Pryor gave lectures with the usual
"Wicca is just a front for Satanism" line given by Warneke and Todd.

In 1998 Pryor created "The Serene Foundation" which
he described as a combination of "Christianity, Shamanism and Satanism"
(but seemed to be entirely the last two) which met in a home once
purportedly owned by Elizabeth Montgomery (actually owned by her
uncle). Most of his staff seem to be miniskirt clad women, who were
usually stoned. Billing itself as a place where teens can kick
drugs, one wonders at the effectiveness, considering the fact the group
made its own "wine" with liquid psilocybin, and the use of Mescaline
and psychedelic mushrooms by the group as part of "vision quests". In
1998 Pryor was arrested for posession of cocaine, but the charges are
dropped over a legal error. The group apprently ceased to exist after
his arrest and his current whereabouts are unknown. (AP)

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1994 Paris, France On Nov. 15,French Police arrest 22 y.o. Pazuzu
worshiper Nicolas Claux on suspicion of the murder of Thierry
Bissonnier, 34. Upon investigation, the Brigade Criminelle
discovered the inside Claux's apartment was littered with human bones,
blood bags (used for drinking) in his refrigerator as well as slasher
films, S and M porn, and occult books. Claux admitted to cannibalism
and grave robbing, as well as a life long facination with the occult.
Claux told police he was emotionally withdrawn as a child, having no
friends. "This is the time when I also developed a fascination for
death and the occult.", said Claux," I would spend hours reading books
on vampires and werewolves. A photo of the statue of the Sumerian demon
Pazuzu especially fascinated me. I found it in a book my parents had
bought in England. For me, it symbolized something extremely ancient
and powerful -- something that I respected. A few years later, I saw
the same statue used in the movie The Exorcist, and my interest in the
occult grew stronger." As he grew older, Claux claims he also became
obsessed with death, and later graveyards. This lead to descrating
graves, mutilating corpses, necrophillia, cannibalism, (at least
according to Claux's websote)and his graduation into a homosexual
killer. He did kill and rob someone he met on a gay Bulletin Board, and
that much is certain. After serving just seven years and four months of
a 12-year sentence, Nicolas Claux was released from prison on March 22,
2002. Some critics of Claux, however, have noted there was no mention
of any of the bizarre things at the time of his trial in the French
press, and that the stories of corpse mutilations and such are simply
exaggerations of an active imagination. A Satanist exaggerate? Who
would think such a thing?(Reuters)

1994 West Memphis, Arkansas, - Jessie Misskelly, Jr. is convicted and
sentenced to life plus forty years in prison for the mutilation-murders
of three eight-year old boys at West Memphis, Arkansas, the previous
year. A month later, accomplices Damien Wayne Echols ( who had a
history of mental illness and hospitilizations for it) and Charles
Baldwin are likewise convicted, with Echols sentenced to death and
Baldwin sentenced to life without parole. Echols enjoyed playing the
role of the neighborhood boogeyman and usually dressed in black and
displayed sharpened fingernails. After his arrest, he was described in
the press as a Satanist. But Echols insisted several times he was a
Wiccan. Born Michael Wayne Hutchison, he later changed his name to
Damien in his teens after being adopted by the Echols family.
Echols briefly joined a local Roman Catholic church, however this was
apparently done to in order to steal the eucharist for occultic
ceremonies.
Prosecutors describe the triple murder as a ritual slaying. Echols
seemed to combine Wicca and Satanism in his belief system, which
certainly isn't unheard of umong teen solitary Wiccans. A notebook of
Echols contained the "upright" pentagram of Wicca surrounded by upside
down crosses. Probably the most incredible claim made by a witness for
the prosecution was that Echols and his girlfriend had planned to have
a baby and offer it as a human sacrifice. (USA Today, March 21,
1994)

1994 Birmingham, Alabama - Self-described Satanist Carey Grayson, 19,
and three younger defendants are charged with the murder of a female
hitchhiker they picked up in Birmingham, Alabama. Police say the victim
was mutilated "in an apparent ritual that involved cannabilism". They
are currently waiting on death row. (USA Today, April 28, 1994)
(AP)

1994 Mechanicsburg,PA Satanist and fortuneteller Timothy Ray Sweger, 23
lured the three teenage girls (ages 17, 15, & 13)into his home with
the inncoent promise of telling their fortunes by merely "touching
their hands". The oldest girl fled as he began to pretend to tell her
fortune, apparently realizing something was very wrong. When the other
two tried to leave Sweger told them he would "rip their heads off" if
they tried. He then raped the youngest girl, aged 13 right in front of
the other girl. Perhaps his fellow inmates will enjoy having their
fortunes told as he touches their hands. (Mechaniscburg News-Record-
Sunday 7-24-94)

1994 Quebec, Canada In October Tony Dutoit, a member of the Rosicrucian
order called the "Order of The Solar Temple", sacrificed his infant son
(Emmanuel Dutoit), aged just three months. The ritual murder took place
at the group's center in Morin Heights, Quebec. The baby had been
stabbed repeatedly with a wooden stake. It's believed Dutoit thought
the child would prevent Christ from returning to earth in the form of a
sun god. This murder seemed to be a warm up killing for a mass suicide
by the cult 3 years later. The Order of The Solar Temple was an occult
group that drew inspiration from Crowley, Freemasonry, Rosicrucians,
the Golden Dawn, and Templars (Reuters)

1994 Tunis, Estonia On 1-25-94 respected poet Hando Runnel was
stabbed to death as a human sacrifice by a Satanic cult. This group of
four young males between the age of 17 and 20, were also involved with
the case of necrophillia with a woman's corpse. One of the Satanits
explained this sick act as “the baptism by Satan” (Reuters)

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1995 Indianapolis, Indiana Jimmie Lee Penick and 3 other practitioners
of Satanism sacrificed, William Ault, a prospective member of their
"Satanic Church." The cult chose Ault because they feared he knew
about a prior murder. During what he thought was going to be his
initation, Ault was mutilated, and an inverted cross was carved into
his chest. Penick dismembered the victims head and hands and Penick
admitted he removed the head to give the skull to a friend. (AP)

1995 Houston, Texas Satanist Steven Brian Alvarado killed two people, a
mother and son, during a drug deal and sentenced to death. A year or so
prior to the murder Alvarado had been in the hospital. The psychologist
stated he was considered "violent and dangerous and that he had a
full-blown antisocial personality disorder."... he had "no concern for
the rights of others, and that he admitted selling illegal weapons,
abusing and selling illegal drugs, sexually assaulting a woman,
mutilating human infants in Satanic rituals, and committing numerous
other crimes. He was discharged after twelve days in the hospital
because he was felt to be a danger to the other patients and that he
was not suffering from a mental illness that was treatable, and,
therefore under the mental health code had to be discharged." So rather
than being a threat to crazy people, he was turned loose on society.
(AP)

1995 Las Vegas, NV Satanist Edward Bennett was sentenced to death for
killing a young girl. Writings were seized showing that the murder was
"ritualistic and Satanic." Some of these statements included: "There's
a problem in this country and has a lot to do with being white. There's
too many people with ugly skin."... "I need to kill somebody or tear
someone apart. I got to satisfy my need, cure this thirst for blood. So
as I make the sacrifice by doing it just for you and kill this child,
for it is a first born, I'm giving you my soul, Satan. Where is my
reward?" Well gee, he got you death row, isn't that enough? (AP)

1995 Greensboro, NC Satanist Michael Allen Parker recieved 8 life
sentences for raping his own children as part of a Satanic sex rituals
that sometimes involved drinking small amounts of the children's blood.
The children testified that Parker raped and sodomized them in the
family's trailer near Saluda and in nearby woods, while other people
wearing black stood around chanting with lit candles. (AP)

June 1995, Athens, Greece; Satanic Cult leader Asimakis Katsoulas and
Manos Dimitrokallis were found guilty of kidnapping, raping and
murdering a 30 year old woman and a 15 year old girl during occult
ceremonies. They were sentenced to life imprisonment. Dimitra Maryetti
was found guilty of complicity and sentenced to 23 years.Katsoulas and
his "high priestess" confessed to leading a 20 member satanic cult,
which had conducted animal and human sacrifices for three years. The
first victim was killed at her initiation ceremony. Katsoulas claimed
he was the vehicle for "ancient demons." Another witness was abducted
when the murderers told her they were police officers who wanted to
question her.(Reuters)

1995 The French Alps A mass suicide of the Rosicrucian group calling
itself The Order of the Solar Temple took place. The occult ritual
suicide ocurred on the Winter Solstice, a time sacred to the sun god in
Neopagan religions and Thelema. On December 23, on a remote plateau of
the French Alps police found 16 charred bodies arranged in a star
formation with their feet pointing to the ashes of a fire. Like the
rituals of 1994, they all died by stabbing, asphyxiation, shooting
and/or poisoning. Their bodies were burned to a crisp as part of a
"cleansing ritual". (Reuters)

1995 Brest, Russia In October Satanists burnt the Church of the Holy
Aphanasij. Police said the arson had "a ritual character" which
lead to the arrest of several admitted Satanists. The suspects were
students from the technical college and pupils from the tenth class. In
the same town a group of young people who produced and the distributed
pamphlets with anti-Christian content and Satanic symbolism were also
arrested in connection to the case. All plead guilty and were sentenced
to prison. (Reuters)

1995 Athens, Greece Asimakis Katsoulas, 24, and Manos Dimitrokalis, 23,
also known by their cult names Amon and Enigma, were found guilty and
given life sentences on two counts of rape and murder and one count of
kidnapping. Katsoulas's former girlfriend and "high priestess" Dimitra
Marieti, 22, was sentenced to 18 years and four months in prison after
being found guilty as an accessory to murder. The three confessed after
their arrest in December 1993 that they led a 20-member satanic cult,
which had conducted animal and human sacrifices on the outskirts of
Athens for three years. The cult's first victim was Dora Syropoulou,
15, who was killed at her "initiation ceremony" in August 1992. She was
lured to an abandoned winery, stripped, handcuffed, raped and
strangled. Marieti, who said Katsoulas sexually assaulted her during
her initiation, was used as bait to trap the girl and waited in a car
during the murder. Katsoulas and Dimitrokalis kidnapped hotel maid
Garufalia Giourga, 30, at a bus stop, raped and tortured her in their
car before crushing her skull. Former cult members told the court
Katsoulas convinced them he was the vehicle for ancient demons by
performing miracles such as producing a snowball in his hand in
mid-July (no doubt by slight of hand). He raped one of my daughters and
assulted the other saying the demon demanded it," Evangelia Riga, the
mother of two former cult members told Riga. Convicts serving life
terms can request to be released after serving at least 20 years. The
death penalty was abolished in Greece in 1993. (Reuters)

1995 United Kingdom 20-year-old David McCallum stabbed a
15-year-old boy 11 times after they and two others used a Ouija board
to "talk to Satan". McCallum, who professed to be a Satanist, believed
that he was speaking to Satan himself at the time, "If you are Satan,
what is it you want me to do?" he asked. Apparently the answer was to
comitt homocide. McCallum was placed in an institution for the
criminally insane. Another British occultist, Aleister Crowley also
used a Ouija board to talk to "preternatural beings" too...and was
probably just as psychotic. (BBC News)

1995 Tsitsikamma, South Africa Satanists Frans du Toit, and
Theuns Kruger, known as "the ripper rapists" are arrested and charged
with multiple crimes. A psychiatrist who evaluated Kruger at the
Elizabeth Donkin Hospital in Port Elizabeth testified that Kruger
suffered from a very low self image (as do practically anyone into the
occult) and seemed to be easily influenced. Du Toit said he had been
introduced to Satanism after an affair with a "Satanic witch". He in
turn introduced Krueger to Satanism and demons. Du Toit claimed that
during a ritual in 1985, conducted by the witch he'd met in Adelaide, a
demon had taken possession of him. This demon, which du Toit called
Incubus, supposedly spoke to him "inside his head", and would sometimes
give him orders to have "violent sex", according to his testimony in
Die Burger of June 20, 1995. The demon, according to du Toit, made him
"attractive to women"; despite this, however, his victim was so
repulsed by him that she pushed her hands against the car's ceiling so
as not to touch him. Judge Jansen found Frans du Toit and Theuns Kruger
guilty on all charges - abduction, indecent assault and rape in
relation to the attack on a pregnant woman, and abduction, indecent
assault, rape, attempted murder and robbery with aggravating
circumstances. (Reuters)

1995 Bellaire, Ohio In September Nathan Brooks killed his mother with
an ax and decapitated his father with a hacksaw after shooting him to
death. Nate chopped off his father's head in the family home in and
planned to use it in a Satanic ritual. When arrested, he confessed to
the sacrifices. Investigators also found books about satanism and the
occult and a biography Jeffrey Dahmer. He also had an altar in an old
abandoned house that mysteriously burnt down after he was arrested.
There he had a list of 16 people he was going to kill. He planned
evicerating them, then burning there skin off. Days before the murders
he allegedly told a friend, "Just wait until I'm famous." In court he
pleaded innocent by reason of insanity. He will probably spend the rest
of his life locked up, regardless.(AP)

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1996 Minsk, Russia A Satanist was arrested for a Satanic ritual
murder. The accused did not deny his guilt and admitted that he
had prepared himself during many years by killing cats. When the number
of "executed" animals reached the number "666", the Satanist killed a
human being "in the name of his master." The Ministry of the Interior
admitted reluctantly that it was the second case of ritual murder. It
was reported that a law was prepared in Beloruss, banning Satanic
organizations. Metropolitan Philaret of Minsk and Beloruss declared
"the clash between people on the way towards witchcraft, sorcery, magic
and occultism is due not alone to the negligence of the civil
authorities", - but also because far from all Christians bear testimony
to their faith in their own lives.(Reuters)

1996 Minsk, Russia In July, the Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy
Spirit was desecrated by Satanists. Icons of the Holy Trinity, of the
Holy John the Forerunner and of the Holy Cyril and Methodios were
smeared with black colour. The walls were painted over with blasphemous
writings with direct threats to physical annihilation of Christians,
and Satanic symbolism. The Belorussian police arrested two students
from the local technical school. During the interrogation one of
them openly admitted being a member of a Satanic sect and that he acted
"based on his religious conviction." A russian court gave him a
differnt kind of conviction. (Reuters)

1996 San Louis Obispo, California - Three teenage Satanists, Jacob
Delashmutt, 16; Joseph Fiorella, 15; and Royce Casey, 17 were arrested
for raping, torturing and murdering 15 year old Elyse Pahler. The
Satanists took Elyse to a secluded eucalyptus grove about a
quarter-mile from her home, force fed her drugs, raped her, tied a belt
around her neck "to make it easier to stab her", and offered her up as
the "ultimate sin against God" on a Satanic altar they made.
Prosecutors allege in court documents that the boys formed a musical
group to glorify Satan. The boys "selected and stalked" Elyse believing
that a virgin sacrifice would earn them a "ticket to Hell".
Unfortunatley for them, they may be right. Ah, they Alien Elite! Now
they will have many decades to think about what they did in prison.
(Modesto Bee)

1990s A rash of church burnings sweeps the south, Flroida in
particular. The culprit caught in the Florida burnings in 1999 turns
out to be a Satanist. According to the Christian Science Monitor, over
1,000 churches have been burned nationawide in a 4-year period of
time. In 2005, three wealthy University of Alabama college
students, Mosley, Debusk, and Cloyd, ditch Christianity for Satanism,
and begin to torch Churches. All three are now in Federal Prison for
Arson. (AP)

1996 Lima Peru Police intercepted a 440 pounds (200 kg) drug
shipment which contained a Voodoo doll. The doll, representing a
policeman had its hands tied, eyes shut and nails stuck to his body.
Milanio Vargas said the doll was his "insurance against being caught".
(Reuters, 10-24) Guess what? It didn't work and he got caught! (Reuters)

1996 Miami,FL Esnel Jean was a Hatian immigrant who practiced as a
Voodoo prietst out of his home in the "Little Haiti" section of
Miami. Haitians would come to Jean for help and forgiveness of
bad deeds he would pray for them, advise them to wear beads, light
candles and take certain actions to fix their problem (for a
"donation", of course). Police say that on March 25, 1996 Esnel Jean
strangled his wife after a heated arguement over money. When the
children came home from school, detectives said their stepfather beat
them to death. Detective Ojeda says the evidence shows that after
Jean killed his family and buried them in the crypt he'd constructed,
he conducted a voodoo ceremony. Inside the garage near the crypt,
police found voodoo-type pictures, literature, statues and candles --
all items typically used by voodoo priests. Ensel is still at large.
The case was featured on America's Most Wanted. Anyone with any
information should call 1-800-CRIME-TV or law enflorcement.
(America's Most Wanted)

1996 Kingersheim, France Satanist and car factory worker David
Obertorf, 18 y.o. stabbed to death an elderly priest in a church in
France. "The priest's body bore very specific wounds which suggested
satanic symbols," a police spokesman said. Obertorf stabbed
68-year-old Father Jean Uhl, who is a martyr for Christ, 33 times in
his church in the Alsatian village of Kingersheim on December 20, 1996.
(Reuters)

1996 Eustis, Florida A group of teens formed a cult involved in
vampirisim, fantasy role playing, Wicca, and the occult known as "The
Vampire Clan" (inspired by The Lost Boys) were arrested for the brutal
murder one of the member's parents. and indicted by a grand jury.
Rod Ferrell, Scott Anderson and Charity Keesee, all 16, and Dana
Cooper, 19, in the slayings. It was Ferrell who police think broke into
the animal shelter, stomping one dog to death and pulling the legs off
another in Murray, KY. Neighbors at the public housing complex where he
lived say they never noticed anything unusual about him or his mother,
Sondra Gibson. "Cool Mom" Gibson is herself charged with solicitation
to commit rape. Police say she wrote to a 14-year-old, inviting sex and
hinting she was involved in vampire-type activity. "I longed to be near
you ... to become a Vampire, a part of the family immortal and truly
yours forever," the letter reads. "You will then come for me and cross
me over and I will be your bride for eternity and you my sire." Small
wonder why the kids turned out like they did. Accused with Ferrell and
Ms. Wendorf of killing the Wendorfs are Dana Cooper, 19, of Murray, and
Scott Anderson, 16, of Mayfield. Charity Keesee, 16, of Murray was
charged with being an accessory to murder. Extradition proceedings in
Baton Rouge are to begin Monday. Calloway County prosecutor David
Harrington described Ms. Cooper as a "follower, someone who wanted to
be liked. (AP)

1996, Milan, Italy Marco Dimitri, the young leader of the Italian
Satanist group, the Luciferian Children of Satan (Bambini di Satana
Luciferiani), which is described as "a neo-pagan cultural
association", was arrested twice in the same year on charges of
rape. Dimitri was accused of raping a two-year old boy and a teenage
girl in Satanic rituals, a case which sparked intense media attention.
After 14 months of prison, he was released and exonerated of all
charges, however. Marco Dimitri and his followers, always the
subtle types, dress all in black, wear a plethora of Satanic
symbols, and have appeared as spokespersons for Satan in popular
Italian TV talk shows. (Reuters)

1996 Larksville, Pennsylvania Shaun Marc Zarcufsky (16) and Stanley J.
Szcuzupski (16) were found dead in Larksville, Pennsylvania's West Side
Landfill. Both had died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head
resulting from a "Satanic worship pact." The teens' interest in
Satanism was only 3 to 4 weeks old before the double suicide. In that
short time, it was evident to parents, teachers and friends that their
personalities changed dramatically. A search of Zarcufsky's bedroom at
home uncovered "scores" of occult-related literature on Black Magic (AP)

1996 Boston, MA The State Supreme court ruled in favor of adopting out
the children of a member of the Ordro Templi Orientis who had lost
custody of them through court order. The court cited Social Services
case that found neglect, sexual molestation and statements of the
children as the reason. The children described being made to
participate in child porn and being molested by several different men.
While describing the past history of the father, the court said: "In
1983, the father joined a religious organization called Orlo Templi
Orientis and studied the so-called Satanic Bible. In January, 1984, he
was convicted of grave robbing, and sentenced to two months in jail.
After release, he returned to his transient life-style, alternating
between Los Angeles and San Francisco." Every man and woman is a
star? Not in this case. (AP)

1996 Hannibal, Missouri A self-described Satanic family had been
in and out of social services for many years. Parental Rights were
terminated as to three of the children. There was constant and severe
domestic violence; the father continually abused the mother, including
using a cattle prod to electrically shock her, shot her with a gun, cut
her with a razor blade and violated her with a baseball bat. Physical
evidence was discovered, and indeed she had a stab wound in her side
and she was bleeding internally. Both parents had been arrested for the
rape of a teenager, but the witness wouldn't testify so the charges
were dropped. Both parents had tried to commit suicide and were
involved in drug usage. The mother admitted to sacrificing animals in
front of her children and giving them drugs to forget the ceremonies.
The children also stated that this occurred. [In Interest of P.J.M, 926
S.W.2d 223, Missouri Court of Appeals, Termination of Parental Rights
Affirmed.]

1996 Bellaire, Ohio In Oct., Satanist Nathan Brooks found guilty of the
mutilation slaying of his parents and sentenced to two consecutive life
terms. The 18 yr. old perpetrator decapitated his father and hacked to
death his mother. Brooks told the officers he used the head in a Black
mass ritual that he believed would "increase his Satanic powers". It
apparently didn't work unless his idea of success was spending the rest
of his life in an 8 by 10 cell until he dies. He said he had also
planned to kill a younger brother, but the youngster was visiting a
friend. (AP)

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1997 Equatorial Guinea; An unnamed individual was condemned to death
after removing the eyes, tongue, ears and genitals of his 10-year-old
female victim as part of a Pagan human sacrifice. Malabo radio reported
that 17 ritual murders were committed in Equatorial Guinea in August
and September of 1997, according to official figures. Another news
report cites a Spanish journalist and ethnographer, Jose Manuel Novoa,
claims that anthropophagy (eating human flesh) is widespread in the
country. He stated, "Eating human flesh was a tradition of warriors
pertaining to the ethnic group of the Fang, which lives in Equatorial
Guinea, Nigeria, Gabon and Cameroon ...as they conquered new
territories, Fang warriors ate parts of their victims to absorb
desirable qualities such as youth and strength... human organs are
eaten by members of secret brotherhoods which practice sorcery in
forests at night. New members are initiated in ceremonies which invoke
spirits...bodies are obtained through murder and robbing them from
cemeteries ...the secret groups are known as 'evu societies', because
many Guineans believe the human body to contain an organ known as the
'evu.'"... "The human brain is known to be highly toxic, for which
reason the cannibals seek to immunize themselves by ingesting potent
vegetal poisons in small doses... nevertheless, the cannibalism led to
a disease known as kuru." (Reuters)

1997 Virgina A 13 yr. old female Satanist was found to have molested
two children in the context of Satanic sex ritual ceremony while she
was entrusted with babysitting them. The kids reported to their parents
and the girl had molested them, made them draw a pentagram while she
performed a sex act on one child, and talked of Satan's power. She
threatened to kill them and their parents if they ever told anyone what
happened, but fortunately, they told as soon as their parents got
home. Court records stated "Decided. True Finding of child
molestation affirmed." This minor's name was submitted to the central
registry as a founded sexual abuser. (AP)

1997, India In Nov., Dharam Vir chopped off his son's head and offered
it to the Hindu goddess of destruction, Kali, in a belief that a human
sacrifice would earn him divine favors. He ordered his son to lie on
the ground and then beheaded him. The police said he murdered his son
because he was driven by his own religious beliefs. (Reuters)

1997 Nashville, TN In July Satanist Christa Gail Pike killed another
female, 19 y.o.Colleen A. Slemmer, that she felt a rivalry with, and
carved a pentagram into her chest. The court found that this murder
involved torture, and medical experts thought the injuries were
inflicted when the victim was still alive. A group of "others" were
named who helped her but Pike didn't give information about them. The
pentagram she was wearing was admitted as evidence. "A witness stated
that as the Defendant described hitting Slemmer in the head with a
piece of asphalt and carving a pentagram in her chest, she danced
around in a circle, smiling and singing." She was convicted and
recieved the death penalty. Another member of the coven surfaced,
Tadaryl D. Shipp,21, and was convicted for his part in the torture
slaying in 1999. Judge M.B. Leibowitz sentenced him to 25 years, and
said said Shipp treated the victim with "gross cruelty while at
least partly satisfying an interest in Satanism". (AP)

1997 St. Petersburg, Florida According to Satanist Eddie Lee Sexton's 5
children, he beat them, conducted 'marriage' ceremonies with his
daughters, had regular sex with them and fathered several of their
children, encouraged his children to have sex with each other,
practiced Satanism including, "invoking spirits" and engaged in other
bizarre conduct. He threatened his children if they discussed "family
matters" with others, & trained his children how to kill FBI
agents. During the trial, son Willie Sexton, said his father convinced
him he had Satanic powers and sexually abused him. While living in
Jackson Township, his daughters were forced to undergo "shaving
rituals". Daughter Lana testified she was taken to the master bedroom
for the purpose of punishment. Once inside the room, appellant held L.
down, while Eddie shaved her entire body with a razor. While shaving
her, Eddie cut her leg, put the blood on her finger, and made her sign
a paper, saying that she was selling her soul to the devil."... Sexton
engaged in a standoff with police in Ohio shortly before coming to
Florida, fleeing to prevent his children from being taken into custody,
and directed the killing of his infant grandchild. Sexton was convicted
and sentenced to death for the participation in the murder of his
son-in-law. Why do people always run to Florida? Criminals, please
don't come down here. (AP)

1997 Pearl, MS Luke Woodham kills his mother then proceeds to kill 3
students and wound 7 others at Pearl High School. As he leaves the
building to kill students at a Junior High, the vice principal gets his
.45 from his car and holds it to Woodham's head until the police
arrive. Woodham said Grant Boyette, an older friend, confided that he
worshipped Satan and asked Woodham to join his group, (called "The
Kroth") saying Woodham had "the potential to do something great."
Boyette promised that he could either get his ex-girlfriend back
or get even through Satanism. Woodham said,"You can send demons to go
and do things. I've seen them," he said. "I know what I was dealing
with. I felt like I had complete control, complete power over things. I
know it's real in spite of what people thinkWoodham said he got the
idea for the shooting after he became involved in Satanism, which he
said bestowed "power over many things.", apparently like spending the
rest of your life in prison. Investigators discovered Boyette -- whom
fellow Satanist called "father" -- plotted to take over the school and
kill students and parents. Boyette lived a double life, and even
attended a Baptist Church, although his friends knew he was a Satanist.
Boyette was later charged and convicted with being the mastermind in
Luke's high school shooting spree.When will you gus learn, the occult
only brings misery and ruin? (CNN)

1997 Chicago IL Dr. Michael Swango, the illusive "Doctor of Death" is
finally captured. Swango murdered at least 30 patients and colleagues
during his career. Swango was first suspected of murdering patients at
an Ohio hospital he worked at as far back as 1983. Swango tried to
poison his co-workers with a pitcher of iced tea, which got him
arrested. Police searched his home and found...you guessed it...tons of
occult and witchcraft literature and paraphenalia, in addition to
poisons and how-to-kill survivalist books. Convicted of aggravated
battery from poisoning his coworkers, he serves 5 years, is released,
re-establishes himself as an MD with forged papers and gets a job at a
WV hospital. In 1992 "Dr. Satan" landed a job at the Veterans Affairs
Medical Center, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Swango got cocky enough
to apply to the AMA who ran a background check and discovered who he
really was. The AMA told the boobs at the VA, who then simply
discharged Swango to avoid a scandal, and Dr. Death is free to murder
yet again. Your tax dollars at work, folks. The AMA re-discovered
Swango posing as a Psychiatrist Northport Veterans Administration
Medical Center , and once again his patients were dying for no reason
(perhaps other than sacrifices to Satan, that is). Eventually, word got
out about Swango, and he fled overseas. In November 1994 he surfaced in
Zimbabwe and got a job at Mnene Hospital...and his patients began
dying mysteriously. A year later the poisonings were traced to him, and
he was arrested in Zimbabwe... and escaped before his trial, and
hid out in Africa and Europe. In March 1997, he applied for a job
at the Royal Hospital in Dharan, Saudi Arabia, using false
credentials. In June 1997 on a flight that had a layover in
Chicago, he was arrested by Federal authorities. Three years
later, on July 11, 2000, Michael J. Swango plead guilty to killing
three of his patients, and fraud charges & sentenced to life
imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Now he'll have plenty
of time to read all his occult books. How much do you want to bet he
gets made a trustee in the prison infermary?(Reuters)

1997 Paducah, Kentucky – Michael Carneal, 14, was known to his
classmates as a Satanist and frequently dressed in all black. On
12-01-97 he opened fire on a small prayer group of Christians.
Three girls died as martyrs for Christ and five other students were
wounded for Christ. Another student tackled him, and it was soon
revealed that Carneal had a pistol, two rifles, and two shotguns, along
with 700 rounds of ammunition, all of it stolen. He’d threatened
earlier to “shoot up” the school, but no one had taken him seriously.
Could it be because Satanists are always saying how they don't kill
people and so no one believed him?(AP)

1997 Stolkholme, Sweden An Rosicrucian occult order called the "Order
of The Solar Temple", that based itself on the teachings of Aleister
Crowley and the Golden Dawn killed themselves in a mass suicide
claiming 48 members. Farewell letters left by the believers stated that
they believed they were leaving to escape the "hypocrisies and
oppression of this world." and that they were going to the star Sirus.
Its top 33 members were known as the Elder Brothers of the Rosy Cross
(an alternative name for the Rosicrucians), and were headquartered in
Zürich, Switzerland. Swiss police were on a heightened state of suicide
watch in anticipation to the summer solstice on June 21. Gerard
Ramseyer, the top justice official in Geneva, said police was
maintaining a "discreet surveillance" of 10 people believed to be known
members of the suicidal Solar Temple Sect. Two of the 10 under
surveillance are believed to be children. All the suicide/murders
and attempts occurred around the dates of the equinoxes and solstices
which are occult holidays to Wiccans, Neopagans, and Tehelmites. Police
think there are at least 100 people in Switzerland who were formerly
close to or had been members of the suicidal cult. It is believed that
The Solar Temple group continues to exist, with thirty surviving
members in Quebec at the St-Anne-de-la-Pérade center, with from 140 to
500 members remaining worldwide. (NOTE: A Rosicrucian occult is
hardly Christian, but this group is misidentified as a "Christian"
group by the Ontario Consultants for Religous Tolerance. The group is
run by two Neopagans and an Athiest, and seem to have tolerance for
anything but Christians. ) (The Florida Times Union, July 22, 1997)

1997 Keokuk, Iowa A 14-year-old girl was arrested and charged with
assisting attempted suicide after police discovered she supplied a boy
with ammunition which he later used to shoot himself in the chest on
9-28-1997. Fortunately, the boy survived and got medical treatment.
Police Chief George Morgan said the teens interviewed in
connection with the boy's suicide attempt admitted they were involved
in occult activity, and had apparently formed their own Satanic coven.
(Iowa Courier10-12-1997).

1997 Simferopol,Crimea In Oct. a group of youngsters aged 16-17
suspected of performing satanic rites was detained by the police of
Simferopol. Local law enforcement bodies suspected in spring that a
ritual murder had been committed when a dismembered body of a dead
young woman was found in the city cemetery followed by several
incidents of vandalizing graves at city cemeteries were registered. One
of the participants in these acts was arrested in Sept. He confessed to
having practiced Satanism for several years. In 1997, he vandalized two
graves and removed sculls and bones to perform "magic rites". He also
took away metallic plates from tombs to make knives for a ritual.
Crimean police reported that in the attic where the man practiced
satanic worship they found a black crucifix turned upside down, sculls
of different animals, earth taken from a graveyard and a diary where
the man thoroughly described his satanic practices. The diary helped
trace other cult members.(Reuters)

1997 Tyumen, Serbia In March, Russian police announced that they were
searching for the ringleaders of a Satanic cult in western Siberia. The
cult is believed to be from the city of Tyumen, 1,400 miles east of
Moscow, where five young people have been found hanged to death in
what, at first, authorities though were suicides. Later, the discovery
of cabalistic jottings in the belongins of the dead youths revealed
their involvement in a seven-stage initiation ceremony that culminated
in ritual suffocation. The first death occurred in April,1996. Denis
Abramov, 19, was found hanged in his room at home in the village of
Roshchino. In May Dima Bronnikov, 17, and in July, Stas Buslov were
found hanged from a tree. Three days later his friend Sergei Sidorov,
18, hanged himself at home. So did Tanya Stankeyeva, 22, in October.
All the victims were friends and used to meet in a basement, which was
equipped with a kind of Satanic altar and had walls painted with
diabolical signs and cryptic symbols. The mother of Sergei Sidorov said
her son admitted to her shortly before his death that he was involved
in a cult. "Mama, I'm a Satanist. I know it is bad, but I cannot
escape. They are terribly strong." Mr. Buslov, the father of one of the
victims, discovered that 36 young people between the ages of 12 and 22
have hanged themselves in Tyumen province in the past year. While there
is no known connection to any cult, the high number of deaths have
shaken the whole of western Siberia. A spokesman for the provincial
prosecutor's office said: "We may be dealing with a serial killing,
though it is not clear if this is murder or incitement to suicide." The
leader of the cult is said to be a man in his 40s, who, helped by two
younger acolytes, exerted enormous influence on naive provincial
children. But, thanks to what the locals call the "Russianness" of the
police, there seems little chance of catching those
responsible.(Reuters)

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1998 BRADENTON, Fla. Paula Green-Albritton along with her son Jimmy Lee
Clarke, owners of Green's Funeral Home in Bradenton,Florida, were
arrested after police discovered she stuffed voodoo dolls into a corpse
in a death curse against her competitors in the burial business and
other enemies. Albriton invoked the voodoo deity Damballah in the hope
that people whose names she had written on notes pinned to the dolls
would die. She allegedly severed the left hand of the corpse of the
corpse and placed 12 dolls inside the chest cavity. ``These dolls were
placed inside a body that was to be buried and will decompose with
time,'' voodoo expert Rafael Martinez said in his report, which police
gave to Reuters. Richard Woodie of the Westside Funeral Home was one of
least two people whose names were attached to the dolls who were
connected to the funeral home business. ``Be gone and may you rot in
the grave Richard Woodie -- Damballah curse him as I curse him, and
spoil him as a spoil him -- by the fire at night,'' one note said.
Green-Albritton was arrested last month a. She pleaded not guilty
Friday to tampering with a corpse. No date was set for trial. Not
only did the curse not work, but Albriton faced charges that
carry a maximum sentence of 15 years in jail or a $10,000 fine.(Reuters)

1998 Sayville, NY Life imitates art. Serena Martin was said to have
several mutual friends with Melissa Joan Hart, star of the sitcom
Sabrina The Teenage Witch ( I like that show, actually). Both grew up
in the same town of Sayville. Like Sabrina, Sareena (she even had a
witch name!) used to cast spells one her hated rival, also a pretty
cheerleader. But unlike Sabrina, Sareena's magic didn't actually work
(well, neither did Sabrina's, it was all special FX). Sareena Martin
and victim's own mom killed the popular cheerleader Charity Miranda by
tying her up and putting a plastic bag over her head. Police said
Miranda's mother, Vivian, 39, and her daughters recently began studying
the West Indian religion of Santeria, and "raised religion to a
heightened degree." At first they told police it was done to "drive the
demons out", but later admitted the girl was a Santeria sacrifice,
apparently having gotten no results with killing chickens and goats.
Police also found occult symbols on the window of the crime scene, and
other items associated with Santeria. The pair are now facing life in
prison. Coincidentally, Sayville's High School has a rivalry with
Amityville...yes, that Amityville. When you have Jesus, life is much
easier. Before you smother someone with a plastic bag, give
Christ a try, OK?(AP)

1998 Santa Monica, California Satanists Glen Mason, 23 Elizabeth Ann
Mangham, 17, and Dennis Ronald Scott, 24, murdered 13 y.o.
Shevawn Geoghegan in a Satanic Ritual. Detectives found dead
animals and Satanic symbols near the scene of the crime.
Geoghegan's body was found on 2-26-98, wrapped in a blanket in
the basement of a vacant mental hospital that police said was
frequented by teens who were into their own brand of satanic worship.
Geoghegan was a friend of the three suspects and voluntarily went to
the hospital on the night of her slaying. She had been strangled with a
belt. The case was profiled on "America's Most Wanted" which lead to
the capture of the fugitive Scott in Alabama in 1999. Birmingham
police found Scott in a section of town known as Five Points South, a
popular spot with youth who are into alternative culture. Police said
Scott had been hard to capture because he lived under numerous aliases,
including the name of a dead friend, Jimmy Ronald Turner. Mason
and Scott were convicted of murder, and Mangham pleaded no
contest to manslaughter. (AP)

1998 Donskoi, Russia In Feb., Police in Donskoi arrested members of a
satanic cult whose ages range from under 20 to 80. The cult members
stood trial on charges of two ritual murders, but the regional court
returned the case for re-investigation. The prosecutor's office
appealed the court decision to the Russian Supreme Court which ruled
that the regional court gave the evidence inadequate scrutiny. After
re-investigation, in 1999 A court of the city of Donskoi sentenced the
cult's memebrs to eight to nine years in prison. The cult's leader
Yelena Kuzina, 80, was sentenced to five years in prison and her oldest
son, second in command in the cult, to ten years. Most of cult members
are teens. All of the satanists were convicted on charges of murders
with aggravating circumstances. Defense lawyers of the satanists
said they would protest the sentences. (ITAR/TASS/February 12, 1999)

1998 Hyvinkää, Finland Three members of a Satanic were charged
with the brutal murder and dismemberment of a 23 year old man that
occurred on 10-21-98 in a small town near Helsinki. Finish Authorities
had recently become concerned over acts of vandalism, such as
desecration of graveyards, suggesting young Finns were showing an
increased interest in Satanism. Police said, however, that the Hyvinkaa
case was the first murder linked to a Satanic cult. The sex and ages of
the members were two men 23, 20, and a girl, of 17. Body parts of
the victim were found on rubbish tips in the Hyvinkaa area, which lead
to arrests.The trial revealed that the murder involved torture,
mutliation, canibalism and necrophilia. After he was killed the
threesome cut of the victims head and limbs and removed some his
internal organs, including the victims heart. The three openly
described themselves as Satanists. One of the three had a previous
conviction for the attempted burning of a church. The court also found
the 23-year-old man guilty of torturing and killing his dog as a
sacrifice on Hallowe'en. Amazingly, the leader (the 23 y.o.) only
recieved a 21 year sentence and the other two receieved even lighter
sentences. (Interfax)

1998 Death Valley, California After an expose in Time magazine,
Castaneda disappeared from the public view in 1973, and began in the
last decade of his life to organize a secretive group of devoted
followers. Castenada started his cult comprised mostly of former and
current female lovers that he called his "witches". After Casteanda's
death in 1998, the female cult members dissapeared. Witches Florinda
Donner-Grau and Taisha Abelar, Kylie Lundahl, and Amalia Marquez
vanished the day after Castaneda's death. A few weeks later, Patricia
Partin, Castaneda's adopted daughter as well as his lover (sick!),
disappeared. Some former Castaneda associates suspect the missing women
committed suicide because of remarks they made shortly before
vanishing, and Castaneda's frequent discussion of suicide in cult
meetings. Achieving transcendence through "a death nobly chosen"
had long been central to his ludicrous teachings, along with drug use
and "magic". The skeletal remains of Castenada's adopted
daughter/lover Patricia Partin were found in the California desert in
2006. DNA identified the remains. The remains of the other cult members
have yet to be found. It might be worth noting that another hippie drug
guru, also went to the desert, and called his female lovers/followers
witches too. His name was Charles Manson. (AP)

1998 Melbourne, Australia Wiccan High Priest Angus Fletcher, a
ounsellor in Caulfield, was sentenced to 10 years' jail for having had
sex with two 15 y.o. girls who'd been sent to him for help. Prosecution
said Fletcher virtually enslaved his victims with drugs & "Wiccan
witch-talk" so they'd believe being tied up, spanked, put in a dog's
collar and sexually abused was "part of a pagan rite". Fletcher said he
believed it too. Swearing an oath on a charred stick, he said Wicca not
only allowed him to have sex with the girls, one of whom was a
reincarnated "Celtic princess" <snicker>, but to cast a spell to
stop them testifying against him, even if it meant their death. It also
apparently let him advertise one on the internet as a "submissive teen
schoolgirl" who was "bruisable and will take belt and paddle". Justice
David Harper, hoever, declared: "Religion can never be a cloak
for the sexual exploitation of children." Fletcher would later claim he
was being "persecuted by Christians"(Reuters)

1998, Pike County, Ohio; In Nov., Michael Paul Dillard, 20, was
convicted of felony child endangerment for burning a boy during a
satanic ritual. Dillard used candle wax to burn crosses on the chest,
genitals, arms and back of the 14-yr.old. Dillard confessed to
torturing the boy, his 13 yr. old brother & a 12 yr. old friend. An
accomplice held their legs while Dillard poured wax on them. "It
burned," the younger boy testified. "I tried to get loose." One of the
men told one of the boys to holler out Satan's name, but he refused to
do it, the younger boy testified. See, "Man guilty of burning teens in
satanic ritual," (AP)

1998, South Africa Naledzani Mabuda and his wife Helen Madidida
confessed to killing their 23-month-old son. The father, a traditional
healer and spiritual medium (called a "sangoma", or witch-doctor),
confessed to the ritual Voodoo killing of his son because "his
ancestors had threatened to destroy him if he did not". Police found
the boy's head, legs, hands and genitals buried under various parts of
the floor in the couple's house. Later searches revealed the poor
toddler's intestines, liver and other internal organs from a series of
ritual "graves" on the nearby mountainside. The couple were refused
bail after another local traditional leader banned them from the
village. He testified that the couple had committed a crime of the
"greatest evil" and that the townspeople were terrified. The case was
remanded to trial for May 4 when a series of villagers were asked to
testify about ritual human sacrifices as part of traditional African
beliefs. Africa still needs Christian missionaries!(Reuters)

1998 South Africa Some good news. In January, witch-doctors, or
sangomas, claimed that ritual murders and killings related to the
medicinal quest for body parts had decreased by more than 90 percent. A
news article reported that police estimate that several hundred people,
many of them children, are killed in South Africa each year for their
body parts. Female genitals, breasts and placentas are used for
infertility and good luck, while hands burned to ashes and mixed into a
paste are seen as a cure for strokes, and hearts for heart disease.
Blood is given to impart vitality and brains for political power and
business success.(Note the Good Witch's Bible mentions similar rubbish)
(Reuters)

1998 Oregon Michael James Hayward and three Satanist friends were
members of a "Death-Metal" band, who loved violence andlistened to
their own Death-Metal music which included lyrics to "The Pick-Axe
Murders," An Experiment in Homicide," "Hammer smashed face," Meat Hook
Sodomy," "Gutted," and "Living Dissection". They planned their crime
and went to a Dari Mart store, killed a female clerk and brutally beat
another one. The evidence of "Death-metal" music and Satanism was
admitted into court testimony and was upheld because it partially
explain the motive for the crime and the motive for the degree of
brutality used. (AP)

1998, Lubuk Pakam, Indonesia; Indonesian sorcerer, Achmad Suradji, 47,
was sentenced to death in April for murdering 42 women as part of a
bizarre attempt to boost his magical powers. The case first came to
light in April last year when police, following up a missing person's
report, found a body buried in a sugar cane field near Suradji's house.
When they went to question the sorcerer, they found women's shoes and
handbags. Over the next few weeks, a further 41 bodies were unearthed
close to his village. According to the police, Suradji said that he had
a dream in 1986 in which the ghost of his father had told him to kill a
total of 70 women and then drink their saliva in order to enhance his
mystical powers.(Reuters)

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1999 August Albuquerque, NM - A 20-year-old man who reportedly scrawled
satanic symbols and wanted to be known as the "Dutch Master Killer" has
been arrested in the killing of a bisexual man. Marine Lance Cpl. Ryan
S. Davis of Albuquerque was arrested on a warrant out of New Mexico.
Great to have Satanists in the military, ain't it? David Perea Jr., was
shot apparently for no other reason than his sexual orientation, said
Albuquerque Police Department Violent Crimes Detective Rick Foley."I've
not heard of us having a homicide related to a hate crime before in
Albuquerque. I cannot recall anything in the 15 years I've been here
where (a killing was) related to anyone's orientation," said Marlene
Thomas, a police records supervisor. Apparently Satanists can be first
in something, after all. Police and the district attorney's office are
looking into whether Davis was involved in other violent crimes, said
Julie Altwies, Bernalillo County deputy district attorney. She said
such incidents may have taken place in Bernalillo County and in other
states but gave no specifics.Foley said Davis admitted to killing Perea
and also "confessed to committing some robberies in Albuquerque" but
gave no details. (AP)

1999 Sao Palo Brazil Brazilian police arrested a witch doctor on
charges of murder and grave robbing after finding 16 skulls and other
bones buried beneath his home. The remains of a small child also were
found, as was a photo of an infant with the words "Para Morrer," or "To
Die," written on the backside. (Reuters)

1999 Sawetto, South Africa A Mozambique man, Maeoriko Manyike was
sentenced to life in prison for ritual murder and mutilation. Manyike
mutilated a 15-yr-old boy and tried to sell his genitals which he had
cut off. According to a news report: "Ritual or 'muti' murders are
common in South Africa where people are prepared to pay well for
portions made of human parts which they believe will bring good health
or good fortune." What? You mean African Voodoo isn't a life affirming
earth based religion???(Reuters)

1999 Kitchener, Ontario In Sept., Wiccan High Priest Kenneth James
McMurray pleaded guilty to five counts of sexual assault on minors.
McMurray held himself out as a leader of a group based on the Wicca
religion. He preyed on abused teenagers and required them to engage in
a series of homosexual acts which he called "Mandatory Requirements"
(the Great Rite) which they would be tested on. He told them that they
would "become better people spiritually if they participated in these
acts(kundalini)". Some members were afraid of McMurray because they
thought he had special powers. Apparently his special powers include
landing in prison. (AP)

1999 Dayton, Ohio In August Satanist Kenneth J. Smith pled guilty to
several years of sexual imposition against a child; he appealed
the designation as a sexual predator. The trial court documents also
noted that alcohol was used, that defendant had threatened the victim,
and that the child was made to participate in Satanic ceremonies .(AP)

1999, Kiev, Ukraine The supreme court sentenced Satanist Dmitry Dyomin
to death for the riual killing a 15-year-old girl whose tongue he then
boiled and ate. Dyomin belonged to a Satanic cult and with the help of
two Satanist accomplices had severed the girl's head with a kitchen
knife. Dyomin later lacquered the skull and kept it in his room.
Skulls, books on black magic and upside-down crucifixes were found
during a search of Dyomin's house. his accomplices, Valentin Chelyshev
and Alexei Andreyev sentenced to 13 and 8 yrs. in jail,
respectivley.(Reuters)

1999, Allentown, Georgia Minnie Pearl Thompson, 44, was
considered a "root worker" (i.e. Voodoo sorceress) amongst
her local community. Her money spells appraently didn't work, becuase
she had to suplement her income by selling crack. The Ocmulgee Drug
Task Force discovered she was moving over a quarter of a pond of crack
per week. Police wiretaps discovered Minnie had buried a dead chicken
in her yard "for protection". When police raided her house, they
discovered, among buring candles, roots, voodoo dolls and such things,
and white powder scattered on the floor. "She said it was Law Stay Away
powder," said Wilkinson County Sheriff Richard Chatman. Well...it
didn't work. She recieved life in prison w/o parole! Her boyfriend, Sam
Rozier, 33, an apostate Christian minister, was also arrested.
Rozier had met Thomas in 1998 and moved in with her not long afterward.
He told drug agents she must have put roots on him to make him join her
drug scheme."If he'd had his way, the roots would have been his
defense," Bache said. "He really, really believed that's what happened
to him." Rozier told the agents her spell entered him through the food
she fed him. Full of remorse and shame, he told Bache: "I should have
left those biscuits alone." Indeed, he should have left it all alone
and stuck with Jesus! He got 18 monhts in the Atlanta Pen. (AP)

1999 Tulsa, OK -James Ryan Bunnell originally told the cops he had
gotten a gun from his parents' dresser drawer to kill a skunk the
family dogs were chasing and then tripped over the threshold when he
went back into the house, accidently killing his 15 year old brother.
If he hadn't been smoking pot when the police arrived, it might have
made his story more believable. The police really doubted his story
when they found a blood soaked pillow with four bullet holes in it.
Later the landlord discovered occult books & the Satanic writings
of Brunnell's in a Bible. Bunnell stated in his writings that he
was the "Son of Satan" and desired to kill his entire family as a
sacrifice to the Devil, according to testimony heard in Rogers County
District Court. Bunnell also wrote, "I want to rape young girls and
feed upon their flesh." Perhaps he was imitating Anton LaVey, who
admitted to dining on the leg of a 20 year old girl. Bunnell pleaded
guilty to manslaughter and recieved 35 years in prison.(AP)

1999 Littleton, CO Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris kill 12
students, a teacher, and wound 23 others at a shooting at Columbine
High School, before killing themselves. Several students stated that
some were killed for stating they believe in God. Later, 50 homemade
explosive devises were found at the school and their homes. The story
shocked the nation and the world. The pair were said to be fascinated
by violence, Satanism, Nazism, Nietzche, often spoke to each other in
German, and always wore black trench coats that was part of the get up
of the set of outcasts known as "The Trenchcoat Mafia". According to
some witnesses one victim, Cassie Bernall, 16, was said to have been
asked by her assassin if she were a Christian, and was then shot (even
though some claim it didn't happen). Feeling like outcasts at school,
(even though they were friends with each other) Their need for
recognition and power led to a fascination with Satanism, Nazism,
Adolph Hitler and death..(AP)

1999 St. Petersburg, Russia Police recorded several acts of Satanic
vandalism. In northern St. Petersburg, a cross was twice cut to
firewood at a church for disabled persons. The first time a big bone
from an unidentified animal was found on the altar. Later one of
the cemeteries of the town was desecrated. In the Southern part of
Russia, in Stavropol, Police think Satanists were the culprits who
burned a 6 foot cross at a county hospital. The cross was consecrated
by Patriarch Alexis II two years earlier and was erected by the staff
of the hospital. The hospital chaplain considers the attempt to burn
the cross simply to be "a sinful boyish trick."(Reuters)

1999 Palatka, Florida William Tyler Black, 17, and Jeffery Burton
Carter, 16, were arrested after their teacher said they told him of a
"Columbine like assault" they hatched. The teacher told
investigators that Black, an 11th-grader at the time, and Carter, a
10th-grader at the time, said they considered themselves outcasts
because they worshiped Satan and that they had a plan for killing
people at Palatka High School. Luckily the plan was discovered and
stopped in time before it could be carried out. (AP)

1999 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Darrel Wayne Harris, 17 was tried for attempted
murder as an adult for repeatedly stabbing a friend he asked to
participate in a Satanic ritual. The attack caught the victim, Robert
Menendez, 22, and the ritual's other participants by surprise,
officials said. Authorities said the two struck up an acquaintance
through e-mail and an interest in Satanic web sites, which they
frequently visited at public libraries. They met in a wooded area along
S.W. 20th Street around 4:15 a.m. to perform the ritual along with
Harris' unidentified girlfriend and at least one other person,
Detective Mike Reed, a police spokesman, said. Investigators said the
two sliced their hands, mixed their blood and drew a pentagram in the
dirt while chanting. Harris then allegedly took the bloodshed one step
farther and turned the butcher knife on Menendez, striking him as many
as nine times in the neck, Urruella said. "He was very lucky to have
survived," Urruella added.(AP)

1999 New York, NY 37 y.o. old Psychic and fortuneteller Pamela
Miller was arrested for making a woman in her 40's believe she had a
curse and taking $50,000 in "donations" of her money over three
years to get rid of it. It was the 13th arrest under Operation Crystal
Ball, a seven-month-old effort by the New York City Police Department's
Special Frauds Squad to address the problem of illegal
fortunetelling.(AP)

1999 Madrid, Spain In March a Belgian woman died from injuries suffered
during a Satanic ritual in southeastern Spain. Police in the town of
Villajoyosa arrested four suspects in connection with the death,
including the woman's husband. State radio news said the woman, a
mother of two in her 30s, had gone into a coma and later died in
hospital. Her husband was reported to be a Spaniard but there was no
information on the nationalities of the other suspects. The radio and
daily newspaper El Mundo cited police sources as saying the woman and
those taken into custody were members of a Satanic cult. "They were
practising a particular ritual of their group which produced serious
injuries, presumably caused by a knife, and burns on many parts of her
body," El Mundo quoted the police sources as saying. (Reuters/March 22,
1999)

1999 Warsaw, Poland In March, a 19-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy
were killed during a ritual Satanic mass in southern Poland, police
said Thursday after finding their cut up and burned bodies. Another
teenage cult member who survived was taken to hospital with multiple
knife wounds. Police have arrested a 19-year-old cult member suspected
of having carried out the killings. The two victims were members of a
sect which staged the black mass in a disused bunker on the outskirts
of the town of Ruda Slaska, but did not know they were to die, a
spokesman said. Police have arrested a 19-year-old cult member
suspected of having carried out the killings. (Agence
France-Presse/March 4, 1999)

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